Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4169] New: Texas Instruments PCI1450 / Airo 340 Kernel freenz

Andrew Morton akpm at osdl.org
Sat Feb 5 05:39:32 EST 2005


Does anyone maintain the airo driver?  Although this may
not be a driver problem.

Hadmut, it would be interesting to remove the airo driver from kernel
config and then try it.  If it still locks up without the driver
available then we know it's not the airo driver.


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Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:31:09 -0800
From: bugme-daemon at osdl.org
To: bugme-new at lists.osdl.org
Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4169] New: Texas Instruments PCI1450 / Airo 340 Kernel freenz


http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4169

           Summary: Texas Instruments PCI1450 / Airo 340  Kernel freenz
    Kernel Version: 2.6.10
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
             Owner: linux-pcmcia at lists.infradead.org
         Submitter: hadmut at danisch.de


Distribution: Debian
Hardware Environment:

Compaq Armada M700 (quite old notebook), 686 processor
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge
(rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
0000:00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E (rev 10)
0000:00:09.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M
AGP 2x (rev 64)


Cisco Aironet 340 WLAN PCMCIA 



Software Environment:
Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.10, pcmcia-cs 3.2.5
Problem Description:

When system boots with airo card or if card is inserted later
the kernel immediately freezes. No hint when plugging in the card
into the running machine, kernel is dead immediately.

When booting the famous last words are:

cardmgr[1835]: starting, version is 3.2.5
cs: memory probe 0x0c0000-0x0fffff: excluding 0xc0000-0xcffff 0xf0000-0xfffff
cardmgr[1835]: socket 0: Aironet PC4800
done.
cardmgr[1835]: executing: 'modprobe airo_cs'
airo: Probing for PCI adapters
airo: Finished probing for PCI adapters

And that's it.

When trying this several times I once saw that the kernel 
was complaining about an unexpected NMI and telling me, that 
I probably have a hardware problem with my memory (memory works
well under 2.4)



The system works under 2.4.26 (while the airo driver had a little 
bug which sometimes lowers the bandwidht, that's why I wanted to 
upgrade to 2.6). When booting the 2.4.26, it says

cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x37f
0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.

which is obviously a different memory range. 


Is the memory range the problem?

regards
Hadmut









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